Widow sues Missouri museum over husband’s death

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Widow sues Missouri museum over husband’s death

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) _ The widow of a St. Louis County museum volunteer killed when a tire exploded while he worked to restore a vintage produce truck is suing the museum’s association and her late husband’s supervisor.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Kathleen Heselbarth filed the lawsuit Thursday in St. Louis County over 73-year-old Eric Heselbarth’s Feb. 23 death at the local Museum of Transportation.

Eric Heselbarth volunteered at the museum for a decade and was restoring a 1937 produce truck when a piece of truck tire that exploded as it was being inflated hit him in the head.